The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1: The Path to Power

This biography tells the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The book is part of a four-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson – the successor to President John F. Kennedy. This book charts the boyhood of Lyndon Johnson through the depression years to his debut as congressman and his defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the power for which he hungered. By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize. Robert Caro also wrote “The Power Broker”, “Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” and “The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 2: The Means of Ascent”.